By Walter Neufeld. A major signal warning of bad governance …
Your taxes go up in proportionate lockstep with Abbotsford’s mayor and council’s apparent inability to understand finance and their inability to distinguish between good & bad decisions.
According to Provincial statistics, Abbotsford has some of the highest taxes in the Lower Mainland,
higher than:
Langley, New Westminster,
Delta, Surrey, Coquitlam,
Vancouver, North Vancouver,
West Vancouver, Richmond, etc.
That means the mayor & most of Council have made some exceptionally bad decisions.
They say they’ve gotten better but the facts say otherwise. Mayor Banman suggests a vote for him will move Abbotsford forward but it’s his velocity and speed backwards that leave him with that false impression.
Now they want you to re-elect them so they can do more of the same
You can Stop Them by voting for someone else
Alternative Candidates who have excelled in their professions are:
For Mayor, Henry Braun see Web link:http://www.henrybraun.ca
For Council see “AbbotsfordFIRST” candidates: Web link @http://www.abbotsfordfirst.com/candidates
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*Walter Neufeld was born and raised in Abbotsford. He manages a development company operating in BC and in Alberta. Walter has been a critic of the provincial government’s dysfunctional Mines Act for about 12 years. Neufeld is the president of the Fraser Valley Regional District Citizens Association (FVRDCA). Most recently, he’s critiqued both Honourable Randy Hawes and the gravel industries Aggregate Pilot Project which he believes to be a harmful private production document .
Enough of this Council.
It is a fair assessment to say that each of them have been given chance after chance to move Abbotsford forward. But their regressive attitudes and lack of thought, insight and transparency has drilled our city into the ground and made us an international laughing stock of bad governance.
Equally important is what qualifications do they have to sit on Council? Ok, MacGregor, Banman and Lowen are university educated but have proven they are not effective City Councillors and Mayor. Perhaps they are suited for other careers. It is unclear whether Patricia Ross has a post secondary education and/or high school graduation her lack of leadership and insight is demonstrative of that. She too needs to go after pocketing from the tax payers trough for two decades.
Enough. The tax payers of our community deserve and want better.